Thanks for all the suggestions,
for future reference here's a summary of my results producing
various kinds of quicktime compatible videos from matplotlib.
I used Ubuntu Jaunty and had the medibuntu codecs installed.
The target audience is undergraduates, so straightforward is
good.
Executive sum
Andrew Straw wrote:
> I use::
>
> ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi
>
That's encouraging, thanks. I tried this and produced
http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/video/out.avi
Just to confirm: the two OSX users down the hall get a "missing
components" message from quicktim
cyclopsvs wrote:
> Hello matplotlib users,
>
> I just recently started using the matplot library for generating simple
> graphs instead of using R. The problem i'm experiencing are the following.
>
> On my work station i had to enable x11 forwarding to be able to run a script
> generating plots
Zane Selvans wrote:
> If I'm going to be working within Matplotlib and Basemap and SciPy,
> does anyone have a good recommendation for which NetCDF Python
> package to use? Or issues I should consider?
We're heavy users of netcdf4-python and it's working well.
http://code.google.com/p/net
I'm having two (presumably) unrelated problems with contourf
1) One of my datasets seems to trigger a bug:
Specifically when I run the appended script
(http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/matplotlib_error/arrayplot.py)
using the pickled array:
(http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/matplotlib_error/array.pic
John Hunter wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 12:17 PM, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If invoked from M-x py-shell doesn't work.
>>
>> Now if I could just figure out where to modify the way py-shell invokes
>> ipython to add the -pylab. Doc say C-u M-x py-shell would prompt
for args,
John Hunter wrote:
>
> Well, the problem is that GTK, WX and Qt require threading support to
> use them properly interactively. ipython has special modes for these
> to run the GUI mainloop in the separate thread. tk is special in this
> regard, in that it runs from a standard python shell w
